The Irish standard., 1887-08-27
alist party had borrowed the weapon of

enemies. The real object of the coercion
policy of the government must be ap-
parent to the masses of the English
people. Its purpose is to deprive the
people, and the Irish tenant especially,
OF the right of combination against
Irish landlordism. 1t was meant to
coerce the Irish farmers to make terms
of purchase with the combination Of
landlords in power-it was intended TO
enable the landlords, by the aid of
coercion, to wiring from the tenants next
year as high price for the landlords S
interest as would enable the latter in
the future to live as they had done in
the past upon money forced unjustly
from the sweat and toll of the Irish
nation. Eviction was to be made the
trump card Of the Tory government in
Ire}and-not such evictions as they
had read about at Bodyke and Cool
CREAMY, but evictions which would cost
the Irish landlord only a penny postage
stamp. Ii remained to be seen, how
eyer, whether they would be able to
carry out The policy Of determination as
easily and as cheaply as they imagined.
How many persons did they imagine
had been turned out OF their humble
cabins in Ireland during the reign Of
her present majesty? Over 100000
human beings. No one but the record
ing angel could tell Of the scenes Of
misery, the tortures endured and the
snfferine:s undergone by the people at
the hands of Irish laudlordism. Where
had those millions gone to? The greater
portion of them. Us they knew. went to
America, but tens and hundreds OF
thousands had been forced across the
Irish channel into England, Wales and
Scotland, What to do? 70 compete
with English Worl1ingmen in the labor
market and to lower their wages, to add
to the poor rates of their large centres
of population, and to increase the rate
Of mortality, sickness and disease iii the
large cities. All that pslicy Of extermi~
nation was carried out against Ireland
and against the interests Of English
workingmen, while millions Of acres of
the most fruitful land in Europe we're
actually hungering for labor in Ireland.
He yentured TO say the more the Irish
question WAS studied by the English
workmen from the point Of view Of the
direct injury which eviction and nis-
government in Ireland inflicted upon
English interests the deeper would grow
THEN sympathy for Ireland and the
warmer their support of Mr.. Gladstone's
enlightened policy. The cause OF the
industrial democracy Of the three coun-
tries was one, and the enemy Of English
labor rights and Irish national rights
was one in Great Britain and ireland.
II English workingmen would study the
Irish question from the point Of it's i'll
duence upon their own we'll being they
would find that Mr.. Parnell and his fol-
lowers We're not their enemies but their
friends, and that the enemies of their
industry and commerce We're of their
own household. The government might
relegate IIishmen during the coming
winter to plankbeds in kilmainhaln and
other prisons, as their predecessors had
done hundreds of times before, but they
would ind. even if they filed every
prison in Ireland, and if they deprived
Irishnen all over the country Of the
rights Of public meeting and free speech,
they would fail to crush the spirit Of
liberty in or prolong, to any appreciable
extent, the existence of Irish landlord
ism or Dublin Castle government. The
Irish had fought and beaten coercion in
the past, when everyone was against
the1n-when it was 30,000,000 against
100000, They were not likely to grow
faint-hearted now, when they had over
&c, 1000. 900 of the British people on their
side, and very little more than 10000 Of
the worthless aristocracy resorting to
the argument Of tyrants. Mr.. j. Pinker-
ten, NJ. p, also spoke in support of the
resolution, which was put TO the meet
ing and adopted unanimously amid
much cheering.
MIR. sExToN's SPEECH.
MIR. Sexton, M. F., addressed the as
semblage from platform, at which Mr..
Fleming, barrister, presided. The
honorable gentleman in the course of
his remarks said he very we'll under
stood why Lord Salisbury was so NOR
tally afraid of a dissolution of Parlia-
ment. He knew that dissolu-
tion of Parliament would be death to
his government The government was
already in a galloping consumption.
All he was afraid of was shat the govern
ment would die too soon, for he did not
desire that they should pass away be-
fore they had time to prepare for their
reception deep, wide and comfortable
grave. Finding himself in Manchester,
he wished to say that Ireland had cause
to be grateful to the electors of that
city. In 1884 the Conservative party
we're exceedingly sweet upon Mr.. Par
nell. They courted him with uncom-
mon ardor. they sent their Irish vicerop